Gorrilla arm is more of an issue with a conventional keyboard/monitor setup, where you need to move your arm a lot to reach the screen. A laptop configuration leaves your fingers much closer to the screen, so gorrilla arm isn't much of an issue.
Making touchscreens useful is still an open question.... but it's not an ergonomic one, imho.

Yes, Star Trek has some awesome tactical feedback systems....
... but perhaps you were talking about tactile feedback?

I think you meant "aisle", unless there's an island somewhere filled with politicians.

+4 informative for misinformation?

Okay, first point: pre-fetch is done at the browser. You're hovering over a link? Pre-fetch downloads the link and has it ready for you if you do indeed click on it. Google isn't involved.

Second point: If you turn on browser sync, then yes, your browser operations get tracked so they can be synchronized.... how else would you expect this to work? If you don't like it, turn it off.

If you think that chrome is mis-behaving, by all means download the source (www.chromium.org) and check for yourself.

I hate having to RTFM just to find the one key point.
Editors: Stop burying your leads!

Hmmm. I don't think the sensor described here would work for you, because it doesn't detect where the touches happen.

I've been building an FTIR based tabletop for my D&D games....

I read an interesting write up on Chromebooks in education today. The article discusses tech for students... not sure if this is what you're looking for, but they really cut down on their support costs.

Is this any different than offering undergrads $20 to participate in a psychology experiment? What's the story here?

Interesting snippet:

I hate to feed (or read) trolls. I think this AC is correct. Slashdot editing seems to be borked. Is there a forum/venue/thread to discuss such things?

(Mistake of the day: forgetting to turn off the "I'm a moderator, show me everything" setting as soon as my mod points expired, and before reading this article. Colossally bad timing.)

We do not share personal information with companies, organizations and individuals outside of Google unless... The "unless" includes a bunch of exceptions, which I don't see as a big deal but you may disagree. In summary, ...c) with a third party affiliate for "processing", which must also agree to the privacy policy (not quite sure what that means)

c) means that you might, for example, buy something from Google, and they might have to ship it to you. When they put your name on that envelope, they are "sharing" your personally identifiable information with the postal service. This escape clause allows them to do that.

I can't remember ever reading a privacy policy that didn't have this clause in it. The clause usually says that they will only share this PII with responsible types who also have a good privacy policy... and it looks like Google uses the same language.

TIL How to block a bad site in google search.

Thanks asdf7890.... I've been using google forever, and never found that before.

Terry O'Reilly has a radio show on the CBC called "The Age of Persuasion", and it deals with the history of advertising. It's actually a lot more interesting than you might think, but I digress.

He's been doing commercials forever, and he swears that you can't set the volume in an ad. Here's one example.